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Main Risks of Aerospace Engineering Projects: How to Implement Wise Risk Management into Your Organization

Epicflow Blog

The aerospace engineering sector deals with mostly large and complex projects. What are the most typical risks associated with aerospace engineering projects, and how to manage them effectively? Main Risks Affecting Aerospace Engineering Projects. Aerospace Standard.

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2022 Aerospace and Defense Industry Trends

Epicflow Blog

Aerospace and defense industry is gradually recovering from the pandemic consequences, but still remains vulnerable as the world hasn’t fully overcome this crisis yet. As for the deals in the commercial aerospace sector, they are likely to remain dependent on the post-pandemic recovery pace.

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Cost Overrun in Aerospace and Defense: The Main Causes and How to Prevent Them

Epicflow Blog

Let’s dive into the causes for budget overrun in aerospace and defense projects, and consider the ways of preventing them. What causes budget overrun in aerospace and defense projects? . For example, the aerospace and defense industry mostly relies on the Waterfall methodology.

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Driving Digital Transformation in Aerospace & Defense: Recent Technology Trends

Epicflow Blog

How can aerospace and defense organizations respond to present-day uncertainty and manage constant change? Let’s examine the applications of these technologies in more detail and learn how aerospace and defense companies can benefit from them. . AM applications in aerospace.

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Successful Project Delivery in Aerospace and Defense: Success Criteria

Epicflow Blog

In aerospace and defense projects, there should be no room for ambiguity regarding the desired outcomes. Read the article to learn more about these criteria, and which of them should be applied to assess the success of aerospace and defense projects. .

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Aerospace and Defense Industry 2022: Project Management Challenges and Ways to Address Them

Epicflow Blog

In the previous article , we’ve reviewed the most prominent trends that are expected to impact the aerospace and defense industry this year. Challenges In the Aerospace & Defense Projects .

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Intaking More Projects in Aerospace and Defense: How Resource Management Solution Can Help

Epicflow Blog

Today, in times of war and crisis, companies dealing with aerospace and defense projects have to timely react to arising challenges and suggest the best solutions possible to meet the consumers’ requirements and stay competitive in the market.

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Simplifying the Job of an Aerospace Engineering Project Manager with a Resource Management Solution

Epicflow Blog

Project management in aerospace engineering deals with large-scale complex initiatives that require perfect coordination between all the parties involved. Read further to learn about its potential to simplify aerospace engineering project management. .

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2022 Online and In-Person Events for Project/Resource Managers and Industry Professionals

Epicflow Blog

Blog PM News aerospace industry automotive industry construction industry defense industry events for HR managers events for project managers events for resource managers maritime industry shipbuilding industry

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Aircraft Engineering: How to Manage a Typical Project with Maximum Efficiency

Epicflow Blog

Aircraft engineering is a complex and constantly developing sector of aerospace and defense, where experts from various areas of technical expertise are involved. At the same time, it’s impacted by present-day trends and challenges of the aerospace and defense domain. .

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Get Agile Certified

Brad Egeland

She started her career as an Aerospace Engineer and an Air Force Officer. She is a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Owner President Managers (OPM) program and also holds an Aerospace Engineering Degree from Syracuse University and a Mechanical Engineering Degree from the University of Dayton.

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Agile: Past, Present, & Future. A Conversation with Agile Trainer, Rubin Jen.

International Institute for Learning

Rubin Jen has been in the project management field for over 23 years, spanning aerospace, engineering, telecom, software development, outsourcing, consulting, not-for-profit and government sectors. Exclusive Q&A conducted by Jay Masai.

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Connecting with Business Communities | Nicole Friedberg on “Lean Six Sigma” and the Importance of Lean Six Sigma Skills

International Institute for Learning

You have over 15 years of engineering and project management experience in the defense, aerospace, automotive, financial, and academic industries.

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Agile & Scrum 2022 Featured Speaker | Bonsy Yelsangi

International Institute for Learning

She has more than 17 years of experience working with a diverse range of clients including aerospace, federally funded centers, defense contractors, media, remote managed services, luxury real estate, aviation, automotive, hospitals, community college and private wealth management.

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What Is Advanced Manufacturing? A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

Advanced manufacturing tends to be used in more cutting-edge industries, such as medical, aerospace and pharmaceutical. This is used in aerospace, medical, prototyping, automotive, consumer goods and other sectors.

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What Is Advanced Manufacturing? A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

Advanced manufacturing tends to be used in more cutting-edge industries, such as medical, aerospace and pharmaceutical. This is used in aerospace, medical, prototyping, automotive, consumer goods and other sectors.

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Reduce the Risk – Share the Success

International Institute for Learning

By Luigi Morsa , Aerospace Engineer and Project Manager, SII Engineering & IT Risk Management is the act or practice of dealing with risk. is an Aerospace Engineer and Project Manager working for the consultant company SII Germany Engineering & IT.

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European Defense Industry 2021: Challenges and Trends

Epicflow Blog

Let’s consider the challenges the aerospace and defence industries are facing today and what trends are leading in the year 2021. Some countries have suffered losses but primarily accounting for commercial aerospace. Thus, Turkey’s total aerospace and defence exports declined by 16.8%

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Taxi cabs in the field

Musings on Project Management

To answer: In the late 1970s there was a depression in the defense and aerospace business as the Federal budgets were re-prioritized.What happened? This year -- 2020 -- there have been photographs of taxi cabs being stored in fields afar for lack of passengers. and thus, no jobs for drivers. Bummer!But But what does that have to do with project management?

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Quality Assurance and Testing: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

The Aerospace Industry. The aerospace industry has quality assurance, but calls it product assurance, which works in tandem with project management and engineering to avoid catastrophic failures that have a human cost. A project isn’t successful just because it has been completed on time and within budget. There is one other factor that is critical to success: quality.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

International Institute for Learning

As an example, the aerospace division of a Fortune 500 company benchmarked against their competitors. Then, they decided to benchmark against best-in-class companies in project management, all of which were in different industries other than aerospace.

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How to Make a CPM Schedule: CPM Scheduling Basics

ProjectManager.com

The critical path method is widely used in the transportation market, but it can apply to construction, aerospace and defense, software development, research, product development, engineering and plant maintenance projects, just to name a few. Project managers know the critical path.

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Spain, Trains, and Incremental Delivery

Scrum.org

This approach is used in aerospace to design and build new planes and to improve existing designs. A very interesting (and sad) piece of news made headlines in Spain recently that provides some lessons about agile product development and incremental delivery.

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Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

Aerospace Engineer, Project Manager. By Luigi Morsa. During the last two decades there has been the emergence of a number of software development methods as a response to the inefficiency of existing software development methods in rapidly changing environments (Highsmith, 2004).

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Divergent-Convergent Paths Process For Conflict Management

International Institute for Learning

By Luigi Morsa – Aerospace Engineer and Project Manager, SII Engineering & IT. is an Aerospace Engineer and Project Manager working in Germany at the consultant company SII engineering & IT.

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Project Management Guidelines (Part 1) - What We Can Learn From Project Failures

Inloox

" Probably the most famous of all management laws is attributed to American military pilot and aerospace engineer Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr. Projects are becoming increasingly complex.

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Reflection and Takeaways on Agility from the SMC-IT 2018 Space Mission Design conference

The IIL Blog

as a keynote speaker, I opened the conference with “Scrum to the Stars” which looked back into aviation history and to the future of innovation in aerospace, and how Scrum methodologies have been, and will continue to be effective tools. Aerospace design processes were modified as improvements to flight technology were discovered, and the knowledge base expanded. In essence, Scrum was there at the start of aerospace exploration.

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Avoiding Mistakes: The Great Challenge

International Institute for Learning

is an Aerospace Engineer and Project Manager working in the Aircraft Industry. By Dr. Luigi Morsa. One of the greatest sources of “headache” for a project leader, a project manager or, in an Agile environment, a Squad Leader, is to discover that some mistakes have been made.

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Matrix Management for Strategic Projects

International Institute for Learning

The concept of matrix management and horizontal (or multidirectional) workflow became common practice in the aerospace industry beginning in the 1970s mainly because of technical reasons stemming from the need for innovation, new product development, and improved quality management practices.

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System Engineering FAQ

Musings on Project Management

Here's my FAQ I used when I was a Director for systems engineering for an aerospace and communications firm (And, I tried to make this not to stuffy!) A lot of PMs know they need systems engineering, or think they might, but aren't sure who these folks are or what they do. What is this thing called system engineering? What is system engineering? Here's the way NASA defines it: " system engineering

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Team Management: The Key of to Success

International Institute for Learning

is an Experienced Aerospace Engineer and Project Manager working in the Aircraft Industry. By Luigi Morsa.

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People Innovation: A New Vision to Innovate

International Institute for Learning

is an Aerospace Engineer and Project Manager working in Germany as a consultant in the Aerospace Industries. By Luigi Morsa, Ph.D. . Nowadays, companies are very conscious that if they want to be competitive, they have to innovate. The conquered market shares can rapidly disappear or drastically be reduced. The only way is to keep pace, to be reactive and introduce new solutions, ideally before their competitors.

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The Complete History of Agile Software Development

Agilemania

In several industries like aerospace and defense industries, the application delivery lag was more than three years. Before agile came, several industries like software, aerospace, manufacturing used to follow the waterfall approach.

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Chess and Business Strategy

International Institute for Learning

is an Aerospace Engineer and Project Manager working in Germany at the consultant company SII engineering & IT. By Luigi Morsa, Ph.D. Undoubtedly the chess game is fascinating because it implies deep thinking, strategy, and prediction ability.

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PM's FAQ about System Engineering

Musings on Project Management

Here's my FAQ I used when I was a Director for systems engineering for an aerospace and communications firm (And, I tried to make this not too stuffy!) A lot of PMs know they need systems engineering, or think they might, but aren't sure who these folks are or what they do. What is this thing called system engineering? What is system engineering? Here's the way NASA defines it: " system engineering

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Understanding Critical Path in Project Management (Example Included)

ProjectManager.com

Since that time, the critical path method has been used in a variety of projects, from construction, aerospace and defense to software and product development, engineering, plant maintenance and more. Projects are made up of tasks that have to adhere to a schedule in order to meet a deadline. It sounds simple, but without mapping the work it can quickly get out of hand and you’ll find your project off track.

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4 Critical Skills to Make a Difference in Your Career

Brad Egeland

​ Back in 1991, while toiling away as an Aerospace Engineer, I found this book called “Do What You Are, Discover the Perfect Career for You.” ” While having achieved my early life’s dream of becoming an Aerospace Engineer, I felt there was something else I could be doing to contribute more of my talent to humanity.

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9 Great Reasons to Choose a Project Management Career

Project Bliss

Project managers are used in IT, healthcare, entertainment, the food and beverage industry , aerospace, and many more industries. You may be wondering if a project management career is a right choice for you. You’ve likely heard a good bit about it – it’s getting more attention in recent years. But maybe you’re not quite sure if it would be a good fit. Or you may not yet know much about project management at this point. If so, don’t feel left out.

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WBS and Product Backlog: Siblings or Distant Cousins?

Leading Answers

However, they did not use the term “work breakdown structure” or WBS until 1962 when DoD, NASA and the aerospace industry published a document about PERT that described the WBS approach.

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Choosing a Project Management Tool: Epicflow vs. Project Online by Microsoft

Epicflow Blog

Meets multi-project and resource management needs of defense, telecommunication, energy, shipbuilding, aerospace, automotive industries, and manufacturing. .

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